I, m ussually more a reader as I can,t write french, but tested the H1200 and wrote a bit about it.
Hopefully its okay to post in English is as well.
Tested: Cabrinha H-Fusion 1200
Range of use: light air foil/wave/freeride.
Specs
H1200- 1200cm², WS 900, AR 6.7, Chord 185mm
Mast: 80cm
Stab: 420mm, 180 cm², AR 9.8
Me: 48yu old, Dutch, non sponsored 95kg strapless rider with average skills and a big love for riding waves and swell at the North sea and sometimes the lakes.
I am good friends with shop owner Marco from WakeStyle.eu where I get a lot of my gear and he called me up two weeks ago with his Italian accent:
Jeroen, I tried a Cabrinha Fusion 1200 demo, it's a bellissima reallllllly verry good lightwind foil and I'm very enthusiastic about it, you should try it!
Well I am a huge shizlefetishist so if you want to try something you don't have to offer that twice
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At 5-6 at Trintelhaven (a spot at the IJselmeer the biggest dutch lake and used 100y ago still sea!) with decreasing wind I first did a lap with my own set: AK5.8x90l (I was 97kg, now trimmed down to 94kg), 5m and SAB1110 high aspect foil and 5m.
The set had great power and bizarre glide, but was limited in maneuverability by the huge wingspan.
Swapped with Marco his Cabrinha Code 88l with the Cabrinha H Fusion1200 foil.
Remarkably, in light airs the Cabrinha with 90cm wingspan is faster than my Sab 1110, very close in glide but almost as maneuvrable as my Kujira1210. In surface the Cab1200 and Sab1110 are very close but the Sab has an whopping 21cm more wingspan!
The wind dropped quickly but I could play with the Cab set up for half an hour and what struck me immediately is the High aspect feeling: as if you hardly have any drag. At the same time, the Cabrinha is much more manoeuvrable than my 1110 and has a very low stall speed and glide. Interesting!
The wind quickly died down and Marco asked if I could borrow it for a week to try it further. Yes of course!
In the afternoon at home I had a good look at the foil.
I noticed that the finish was very nice, very light, thin profile and safe rounded corners.
The mast is very thin and a piece of art, but apart from that, there is nothing special about the set.
Nothing in the picture that makes you think Lightweight foil, because in everything it looks like a midwind foil a la Kujira1210/Sab945 but apparently appearances are deceiving...
The past week I have been able to sail the foil under my AK5.8x90l 6 times in varying conditions:
4m on the Westeinderplassen (lake),
6m on Bloemendaal in the swell (sea),
5m on Wijk in small bumps(sea),
5m, on Wijk with an onshore shoulderhigh swell (sea),
5m Bloemendaal in some mega chop/bumps with no real line (sea)
5m Westeinderplassen(lake).
What stands out:
getting going and straight line performance:
The foil is despite 1200 surface really a light weather foil. Nice with a 5m, but with a 4m it is big and less in place than with a 6.
If you forget about 1200cm2 and 90cm surface area for a moment and just think lightweather foil, it is surprisingly fast, faster than a Kujira 1210 which is more of a midweather foil for me, faster than my Sab1110 and not much inferior to the 1100 which has a whopping 2100cm2!
If you fly it, it has very little drag for a light-air foil.
Most foils for light/midweather feel more draggy, this one is downright slippery in lightweather, the harder you go/the more the wind blows, the more you will notice some drag, but even then it is quite a special feeling.
Whether that is the foil or the combo with the thin mast I do not know.
I have a Project Cedrus mast that is very stiff, but the thin Cabrinha mast feels very flexible for my "lightweight". In the westeinder klots I find it too slack, at sea I noticed much less, but it seems to make the set a bit nervous.
Turning/riding and Stallspeed:
Most lightweather foils have a low stall speed, but are also characterised by a larger turning radius and are not very reactive in the turns. The Cab can also have a low stall speed, but stands out because its turns are equivalent to midweather foils like Kujira1210 and Sab945.
Glide is superb, making wave riding a joy.
When you ride a wave, the harder you go, the more pressure you build on your front foot. The Cab has much less of this, which is quite a special feeling in the beginning. The - in my experience - quite flexible mast that I didn't like so much in the chop when sailing straight ahead, seems to be able to really loaden in the turn, where the energy seems to come back out later. Consequence even on a very weak hip high Wijk and Bloemendaal wind waves I could really turn nice with it to a level that just does not fit light weather.
Conclusion: It sails just like a mid-weather foil but in low winds with the low launching threshold and stall speed that fits a much bigger lightweather foil.
Looking at the foil again, I see nothing special, and the only logical explanation for how it sails is that Keahi de Aboitiz has sprinkled the foils with a little Magic Dust.
So because there is no such thing as an finished quiver I've ordered a 1200 set with stab (and the 1000 as well), and see if I can say goodbeye to some stuff that I use less,
Because the mast felt very smooth but also too flexy I will be sailing this set with my Project Cedrus mast.
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Ma Chaine Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/hadrienbrunner
